The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-11-18
THE"E0H0" AND THE STATE
CENTRAL COMMITTEE.


In the last Issue of the Commercial,
J. G. Munday, who was elected as
compromise candidate from this parish
to the State Central Committee, in
long communication to that paper,
launches forth a TRADE against the
Echo for having stated some weeks
previously the following
hForty-eight to forty.one in favor
of McEnery is the way the State Cen
trail Committee stands. Notwithstand-
ing the Reformers tried all sorts of
tricks to reverse the complexion of
the Committee.
We do not notice this communiea-
ton because we think it of any import
ance or worthy of any particular at
tention from us, as the points raised
in it by Mr.. Munday were settled by
a unanimous vote of the Committee
on Credentials to seat the very mem
bers (the uncontested) that he claims
met with "bull-dog opposition from
the ranks of the * McEnery
ring, "but to show that tho Echo stated
cold facts, and did not try to "delude
the people," as Munday says, when it
said the Reformers tried by trickery to
reverse the complexion of the State
Central Committee, and to bear us ont
in the reiteration of the same we will
quote the following editorial which
appeared in the Times Democrat the
day after the adjournment Of the State
Central Committee, and which all fair
minded persons will readily admit
completely refutes each and every
point raised by DR.. Munday, as to any
unfairness on the part of the McEnery-
ties, but places the jugglery right
where the Echo said it was-in the
Reform camp:
1.-THE State Central Committee com
pleted it's work yesterday, fixed the
| date of the convention and the mode
of electing delegates to it, and then
adjourned. The meeting was less ex-
citing than that of the previous day,
for It was clearly shown that the
stories circulated, that the majority
intended to take some factIonal ad-
vantage of their control of the com
mttee were utterly false. Quite the
contrary, they made a number of con-
eesslons in the interest of harmony,
and the convention adjourned in far
better spirit than it met. One fact,
however, was clearly brought out
the attempt of the reformers on the
previous day to capture the conven-
tion by frivolous contests and pro-
tests. The frivolousness of these pro-
tests were laid bare before the com
mittee on credentials and the central
committee itself; and the wisdom of
the majority in refusing to allow this
trick to be used to reverse and rev.
olutionize the meeting was so clearly
demonstrated that none could doubt
it. The Performers" had prepared
enough contests to tie up number of
the supporters of Gov. McEnery
and thus hoped to secure the commit
tee. In order to do this they were
not particularly nice in their contests,
and raked up the most absurd opposi-
sion possible; they we're prepared,
indeed, to cripple the majority. When,
however, the question came before
the committee on credentials, they
weakened. Their contests in the fifth
and sixth wards were so tlimsy that
they were actually ashamed to pre-
sent them, and they were dropped at
once. Yet, had their little trick sue
ceeded, they wonld have disfranchised
the members from these wards, in con
tests which they afterward admitted
were frivolous and groundloss. The
committee on credentials went care,
fully over the whole list, and "the re,
/ form" protests and contests disap
2 eeared before the examination and
3 investigation of each case. With the
exception of the St. Charles and Gaia
hOula cases, the committee presented
i a unanimous report, the three Nicholl
e members agreeing cordially with tn,
majority and sweeping away the fc
titious contests their faction had go
up. In these last two cases they madt
It separate report, but when it came Il
G vote only seven members in the en-
:. tire body voted for it. The report 0
the committee on credentials wa
unanimous except in two instances
: and in these the vote was SO to I
= 1t was an acknowledgment that tn
l. majority had acted squarely and just
q ly to all in its report, that the list @
delegates presented by it was a correC
/" one, and that the contests of the pre-
> vious day were flimsy or fictitious
This "the reformers" acknowledge
r as soon as they found out that thei
little game could not be played"
/, Now, in lieu of the above indIspu
n table facts, we leave it to the publ
to decide who has made "palpabl
and gross Misrepresentation of tb
! truth" the Echo or ]. G. Munday.
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TIE Riehland Beacon says that al
ter the adjournment of the McEner,